Multiple Choice Questions

The California-based railroad company, headed by Leland Stanford, that employed Chinese laborers in building lines across the mountains.
  • Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
  • J. Pierpont Morgan
  • Central Pacific Railroad
  • Great Northern Railroad
Dishonest device by which railroad promoters artificially inflated the price of their stocks and bonds.
  • Standard Oil
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Stock Watering
  • New South
Aggressive eastern railroad builder and consolidator who scorned the law as an obstacle to his enterprise.
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Thomas Edison
Public-spirited railroad builder who assisted farmers in the northern areas served by his rail lines.
  • James J. Hill
  • Russell Conwell
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Land Grants
The conservative labor group that successfully organized a minority of American workers but left out.
  • American Federation of Labor (AFL)
  • League of unions
  • Samuel gompers
  • Knights of labor
Supreme Court case of 1886 that prevented states from regulating railroads or other forms of interstate commerce.
  • Craft Unions
  • Stock Watering
  • Wabash
  • New South
Southern newspaper editor who tirelessly promoted industrialization as the salvation of the economically backward South.
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Samuel Gompers
  • Thomas Edison
  • Henry Grady
The first billion-dollar American corporation, organized when J.P. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie.
  • James j. hill
  • United States Steel Corporation (USSC)
  • John d. rockefeller
  • Andrew carnegie
Pro-business clergyman whose "Acres of Diamonds" speeches criticized the poor.
  • Russell Conwell
  • John P. Altgeld
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Charles Dana Gibson
The northernmost of the transcontinental railroad lines, organized by economically wise and public-spirited industrialist James J. Hill.
  • Central Pacific Railroad
  • Great Northern Railroad
  • Terrence Powderly
  • Craft Unions
Secret, ritualistic labor organization that enrolled many skilled and unskilled workers but collapses suddenly after the Haymarket Square bombing.
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Knights of Labor
  • American Federation of Labor (afl)
  • Andrew Carnegie
Magazine illustrator who created a romantic image of the new, independent woman.
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Russell Conwell
  • Charles Dana Gibson
  • Andrew Carnegie
Eloquent leader of a secretive labor organization that made substantial gains in the 1880s before it suddenly collapsed.
  • Terence V. Powderly
  • Samuel Gompers
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Alexander Graham Bell
Federally owned acreage granted to the railroad companies in order to encourage the building of rail lines.
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Tax Exemptions
  • Land Grants
  • Henry Grady
Term that identified southern promoters' belief in a technologically advanced industrial South.
  • Wabash
  • Knights Of Labor
  • New South
  • Stock Watering
Federal agency, originally intended to regulate railroads, that was often used by rail companies to stablilize the industry and prevent ruinous competition.
  • Great Northern Railroad
  • Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
  • Standard Oil
  • Central Pacific Railroad
Inventive genius of industrialization who worked on devices such as the electric light, the phonograph, and the motion picture.
  • J. Pierpont Morgan
  • Thomas Edison
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • John D. Rockefeller
The only businessperson in America wealthy enough to buy out Andrew Carnegie and organize the United States Steel Corporation.
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Samuel Gompers
  • J. Pierpont Morgan
Former California governor and organizer of the Central Pacific Railroad.
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Czolgosz
  • William Graham Sumner
  • Leland Standford
First of the great industrial trusts, organized through a principle of "horizontal integration" that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors.
  • Craft Unions
  • Stock Watering
  • Telephone
  • Standard Oil
Illinois governor who pardoned the Haymarket anarchists.
  • John P. Altgeld
  • Russell Conwell
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Samuel Gompers
Former teacher of the deaf whose invention created an entire new industry.
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Thomas Edison
Black labor organization that briefly flourished in the late 1860s.
  • Samuel Gompers
  • Knights of Labor
  • Colored National Labor Union (CNLU)
  • American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Aggressive energy-industry monopolist who used tough means to build a trust based on "horizontal integration".
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Thomas Edison
  • Andrew Carnegie
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